Coil ID Light is Always Green.
Symptom
Coil ID Light is Always Green See Long Description Coil ID light is always green. GE Healthcare SMILe's and Service Notes are copyright (c) to General Electric Company Inc with all rights reserved. SMILe's and Service Notes issued by GE Healthcare are proprietary to GE Healthcare. Disclosure to persons not employed by GE Healthcare or not in possession of a Advanced Service Agreement with GE Healthcare is prohibited. SMILe 8/23/05 Subject: Coil ID failures with 8 Channel Switch. Effectivity: All Signa Excite 2 (11.x) systems equipped with 8 Channel Switch (part number 2362995-2). Problem Description: The 8 Channel Switch can fail so that the LPCA green Coil ID LED is illuminated at all times, even when a coil equipped with Coil ID is not connected. Oftentimes to recover it is necessary to cycle power to the Driver Module and perform a Reset TPS to allow scanning.
Error message
2220007 The prescribed RF coil and detected RF coil do not match. See long description on reading/interpreting this type of error message Note: An example of this error message, with explanation, is provided below. Wed Mar 3 08:18:58 2004 Error: 2220007 Host: lx-mr3 Process: scn File: RxMgrDownload.m Line: 2074 The prescribed RF coil and detected RF coil do not match. 040303104912225 Upper coil connect status:0, Upper coil code:Null, Lower coil connect status:1, Lower coil code:q8dCUW0PD2EaETIplAp90PLrACM6CW38, Rx coil name:MRI 8HRKNRR PA, Rx coil code:q8dCUWOPD2EaETIpIAp9oPLrACM6CW38 NOTE: Upper coil connector status refers to connector plugged into upper port at "dog house" (i.e. head coil or Med' Adv' QUAD KNEE ("chimney") coil). Lower coil connect status refers to all PA coils / any coil using the lower port at the "dog house". Coil code should match that of what was detected (in this case the zeros were config'd as O and o (oh's - upper and lower case), and the number one following "ETIp" was an "I").Applies to
- Models
- Excite, Signa
- Product
- Excite Includes Excite 1 and Excite 2, 10.0, 11.0 and 11.1 Software.
- Software
- 11.0 Only for 1.5T Excite product. 12.0 is Excite HD and 14.0 is Excite HDx. Note, 3T Excite goes with software G3, not 11.0 or 11.1.
- Component
- 2362995-2 Eight 8 Channel Switch
- Area
- MR
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